BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Bulgaria to build a Noah's Ark

As a tourist attraction, they're not expecting a flood. Or are they?

At any event, there's no Biblical (let alone historical) reason to build an ark in Bulgaria. Some fruitcakes are saying that the flood story is based upon a real flood-destroyed civilization in the basin currently filled by the Black Sea, but I don't take that seriously. The "actual" flood was certainly in Mesopotamia, and the Biblical Ark came to rest in Ararat, ancient Urartu, in southern Turkey. Bulgaria and Turkey are, of course, neighbors, but the part of Turkey in question is about 500 miles from Bulgaria's Black Sea coast.

Oh, and they say "there will be pairs of the different animal species chosen once by Noah", which should be loads of fun. Actually, I want to see that just to demonstrate the practical impossibility of the flood story, not that it will convince anyone.